New White Box 914 Community Site

Timster has started a new community website for owners of
the White Box 914
PC-based robots. The site is intended to be a central location for news,
resources, tools, and discussion about the White Box robots. Timster
also runs the White Box sponsored MobilRobotics.com website. For
more details on the new site, see the complete news release on the site
launch below.

914PCBOTS.com Community Site Goes Live!

Community tools and resources now available for enthusiasts and developers
of the PC-BOTs revolution

26 July 2005 914PCBOTS.com today announced the launch of a new robotics
enthusiast website, targeted at audiences interested in creating PC-BOTs
and exchanging ideas, support tips, photographs and more.

914 PC-BOTs combine the standards, functionality, connectivity and
development environment of PC architecture with the advanced navigation
and sensing technologies of the mobile robotics industry. 914 PC-BOTs,
shipping in limited quantities this fall and available in volume early
next year from White Box Robotics, are perceived by many as the next big
thing in consumer and educational robots.

What the Sony PSP community has done for mobile media and gaming I see
the 914 PC-BOTs community doing for robotics, said Timothy Brown,
914PCBOTS.com Managing Editor. 914PCBOTS.com was launched to facilitate
that creative process of development and exchange for robotics and PC
enthusiasts.

Were obviously pleased to see a site like 914PCBOTS.com rally behind our
product, commented Thomas Burick, Founder of White Box Robotics. The
9-Series PC-BOTs were designed from the beginning to be hacked and built
upon, and well encourage and support the community to be creative
pioneers in this new industry.

As a community tool, 914PCBOTS.com will endeavor to cover several bases
including keeping up-to-date on the latest developments of the 9-Series
product and White Box Robotics the company, while highlighting the efforts
and achievements of the public community. Site visitors will be able to
view news, updates, and an ever expanding 914 PC-BOTs FAQ as well as
discussion forums. Registered members (registration is free) will be able
to have a more participatory role by posting questions to the FAQ,
participating in the discussion forums, sharing info about their own
projects, submitting news, accessing a shared file repository and much
more.

About White Box Robotics
White Box Robotics is setting the standard for an entirely new category
within the mobile robotics industry. The company will deliver
unprecedented value to enthusiasts, educators and OEM's through its PC-BOT
platform. Their mission is to develop mobile robotic platforms that
empower people by eliminating the difficult learning curve typically
associated with building robots.
For more information please visit: www.whiteboxrobotics.com

About 914PCBOTS.com
A community site to support robotic developments around the 914 PC-BOTs
from White Box Robotics, 914PCBOTS.com is a sister site to
MobileRobitcs.org, the popular robotics community news and information
site. To participate in this exciting new community please be sure to
visit: www.914pcbots.com

As a community member grateful for the First Amendment rights of free
speech in this prestigious, influential forum at robots.net, today for
the sake of "the robotic nutters who want to write their own software,"
while coding and updating Mind.Forth
artificial intelligence I have added a link to the 914 PC BOTS Community website and I
wish them every success in promoting mobile robotics. -Arthur
(Mentifex/AI4U)

Looks like enough certs changed to drop his level back to observer,
but just barely. Spoon's cert was removed which carried a lot of trust.
The sleve cert carries no trust since sleve is himself an observer. Any
remaining trust flows from evilrobots and rudybrian, both of which have
certified so many users that their certs aren't worth enough even
together to reach the apprentice level. Looks like they both lost some
certs from this as well though. AI4U appears to be hovering just
slighly below the observer/apprentice threshhold. A single cert will
probably be enough to push him over it again, so I suspect he'll be back.

Thanks everyone! Also, thanks to rudybrian & I've
put your certification from me back up (I hope others do also). Hope
it didn't cost you too many certs. Sorry to have to get that
drastic.

It's good to see that people around here care enough to moderate down
disruptive spammers like that. For now, it looks like
AI4U has left the building. We'll have to watch to
see what incarnation he will come back as? I figure it's just a
matter of time with a person like that. It's simply awful that
sometimes people go so far as to have to be moderated. I believe he
was given sufficient warning by plenty of people. It's sad that it
had to come to this.